Community or Chaos

Nadine Hura Author of “Slowing the Sun Over whelmed by the complexity of climate change, Nadine Hura sets out to find a language that connects more deeply with the environmental crisis. We will discuss her findings.

Broadcast on OAR 105.4FM Dunedin www.oar.org.nz

Is the end of Civilization Nigh - Murray Grimwood is a Waitati commentator on environmental and other issues . We will be considering the crisis of this Civilization and talking about our current fundamentalist economic paradigm in relationship to the greatest environmental crisis our Civilization has seen since the advent of agriculture!

Broadcast on OAR 105.4FM Dunedin www.oar.org.nz

Systematic evil from a spiritual perspective - Mark Chamberlain the priest at Holy Name Catholic Church will discuss recognising Systematic evil from Political lying to genocide and how it affects our view of humanity and the Divine. We will draw on the work of Hannah Arendt” Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil “And The Origins of Totalitarianism””With The growing authoritarianism of President Trump and gGenocide of Palestinians in Gaza by Israel have returned these issues to the surface of concerns we must deal with.

Broadcast on OAR 105.4FM Dunedin www.oar.org.nz

Public and Environmental Health - "I will be talking with Prof Alexander Macmillan, Professor of Environmental Health, Department of Preventive and Social Medicine University Otago Med School. We will be discussing public and environmental health as a local issue.

Broadcast on OAR 105.4FM Dunedin www.oar.org.nz

Panic over Water and Finance - I will be talking with DCC Counselor Jim O'Malley about water services and infrastructure nationally and locally and why there is a perceived crisis and upkeep and finance of water services.

Broadcast on OAR 105.4FM Dunedin www.oar.org.nz

New Zealand's basic infrastructure in crisis - Prof Timothy Welch, University of Auckland Architecture and Planning Faculty of Engineering and Design, Architecture and Planning, New Zealand.

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Live Action live zoom interview anti-Trump rally Santa Cruz California - Stephen Zunes Prof. of international relations at the University of San Francisco I alongside Robert Patman will be interviewing Stephen Zunes while he is taking part in an anti-Trump protest at Santa Cruz California!

Broadcast on OAR 105.4FM Dunedin www.oar.org.nz

Homeless crisis in Dunedin - I will be talking with Gill Brown principal housing advisor for the Dunedin city Council about the seriousness of homelessness in Dunedin that seem to have gotten more severe.

I'll also ask what happened to the $20million The council committed to spending on more community housing as part of its 10-year plan to 2031,

Broadcast on OAR 105.4FM Dunedin www.oar.org.nz

Journalism and Democracy in crisis - Peter Thompson - Chair The Better Public Media Trust.  Peter is a senior lecturer on the media studies programme at Victoria University of Wellington where his principal research interest is political economy and media policy. He has published extensively on public broadcasting issues in New Zealand. Peter Thompson and I will be discussing link between the crisis in journalism and the crisis in Democracy and how exposing corrupt patterns of influence is as an important in New Zealand as it is Overseas!

Broadcast on OAR 105.4FM Dunedin www.oar.org.nz

Farming in the Roger Douglas Era - Looking at Settler farming through the eyes of Alan Wiseman a settler in the Te Anau. The experience of farming in an Era of social economic transformation.

Broadcast on OAR 105.4FM Dunedin www.oar.org.nz